Running Total on Boost Nominations
Stats last updated 18 January.
- Nonphilosophy articles I have nominated have a 76% acceptance rate (25 of 33).
- Philosophy articles I have nominated have a 24% acceptance rate (7 of 29) including 13 straight rejected nominations in November.
30 November update: Another philosophy article was Boosted! Up now to a staggering 20% acceptance rate, 53 points lower than the acceptance rate of nonphilosophy articles.
23 November update: Coincidence or not, the curators finally allows some philosophy articles to be Boosted. Still, that completely absurd 13 rejects straight remains, as does the woefully lower acceptance rate of philosophy articles.
I am interested to hear about other Boost nominators’ experiences (please leave me a private note), but my recent experience has uncovered a very clear pattern of bias regarding subject matter. Not the quality of writing, not adherence to the quality criteria — the topic of the article.
This month, 13 philosophy articles that I have nominated for a Boost were rejected. Yes, 13 straight.
That’s a 0% acceptance rate. Nonphilosophy articles? Infinitely higher — 85% of my nominations over that same period.
